You would be supprised how often locks are cut off forest servcie gates. We were working an event in northen AZ a few years ago, one of the local forest service guys gave us a key that would get us through all the gates just in case we needed access for a rescue. Well, every gate we had come to had the locks cut from them... not the chains the freaking locks...
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